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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1981
Page
7
Sen Jeremiah Joyce proposes start up grants of 4000 to 5000 dollars to unemployed Illinois residents who relocate to states with less unemployment. He plans to introduce legislation in February to induce residents to seek work elsewhere and deny accusations of paying for relocation of minorities.
Illinois officials order an expanded inquiry into the beating death of 5 year old Alan Madden after an inquest found he was pummeled and left to bleed internally for 10 hours. Parents protested outside the state Department of Children and Family Services office, angry that authorities had been warned of abuse at home in recent months.
Springfield AP report says a Department of Children and Family Services investigation cleared two social workers of negligence in the deaths of 11 East St. Louis children in a house fire last weekend. The agency noted no significant cause to remove the children from their mother Virginia Williams aged 28 before the blaze.
Thirteen of twenty one passengers were treated for leg and other injuries after a high speed elevator in a 57 story bank building overshot the ground and jerked to a halt. Passenger John Howland, 38, recalled we did not know it was falling until we hit.
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